Dalla forma di governo ai partiti. I prolegomeni di una rappresentanza sbiadita. Qualche considerazione a partire dall’opera di A. Lanzafame, “La vis expansiva della rappresentanza”

The crisis of political representation leads us to reflect on forms of government, with the aim to find an organization of powers which gives a new democratic force to the political-institutional system. A debate that has developed around the theses of the supporters of parliamentarism and presidential systems. Starting from the Opera of Lanzafame, the article highlights some criticalities of presidentialist forms of government and the danger of plebiscite drifts in the Italian context, characterized by the crisis of the party system.